Fiona Hall

(Australia 1953– )

Title

Sydney, Australia, 1979

Year

1979

Media category

Photograph

Materials used

gelatin silver photograph

Dimensions

27.7 x 27.6cm image; 40.5 x 30.2cm sheet

Signature & date

Signed and dated c. verso, pencil "Fiona Hall/ ...1979".

Credit

Purchased 1981

Accession number

230.1981

Copyright

Location

Not on display

Further information

Fiona Hall's diversified practice includes installation, mixed media and photography. She trained as both a painter and photographer in Sydney, London and Rochester, New York, before returning to Australia to work professionally and teach in the early 1980s. Her early photographs present intriguing and seductive images of the world, unexpected glimpses of life and places such as the Harbour Bridge behind fibro houses and banana leaves in 'Sydney, Australia, 1979'. Documentary becomes truly a process of revealing what we might otherwise miss. Hall's work also plays with light, and its ability to both reveal and cloak.

Bibliography (4)

Natasha Bullock, Australian postwar photodocumentary 2004, Domain, 2004. no catalogue numbers

Julie Ewington, Fiona Hall, Annandale, 2005, 38 (illus.).

Kay Vernon, Harbour hymns, city songs: visions of Sydney from the collection 1990, Sydney, 1990. cat.no. 96

Michael Wardell, My city of Sydney 2000, Domain, 2000. no catalogue numbers

Exhibition history (6)

The Bridge, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Mar 1982–09 May 1982

Contemporary Photography from the Collection (1984), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 Jun 1984–12 Aug 1984

Harbour hymns, city songs: visions of Sydney from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Jan 1990–11 Mar 1990

Souvenirs of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 14 Mar 1992–10 May 1992

My city of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Sep 2000–22 Oct 2000

Australian postwar photodocumentary, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Jun 2004–08 Aug 2004